[TUHS] [COFF] Book Recommendation

[Dan Cross]

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On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 9:15 AM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> Adam - first thank you.  Pleased to know he's still kicking around.
>
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 11:26 PM Adam Thornton <athornton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't think Don ever had a lot of crossover with the more academic
>> world of Unix people, but he's one of my heroes and I have learned a hell
>> of a lot from his works.
>>
> Not true at all.  If you grew up as EE, in the late 1960s/early 1970s it
> was hard to not know about him since he was so prolific.  FWIW, before I
> went to CMU, he was already a hero and I had a number of books from the
> late 1960's.   When I was freshman in the early 1970s, his TTL Cookbook was
> an optional text for the intro to EE course [I already had it but a number
> of my mates had never seen it before].  His CMOS Cookbox was not published
> yet, but when it was, I bought it.
>

Indeed, still well-known: I have both his TTL and CMOS cookbooks within
easy reach.

        - Dan C.
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